• Desire to Belong: The Human Trait of Unconscious Bias

Everyone has unconscious biases, using stereotypes to assess people and guide decision making. A desire to belong can stop people from moving beyond them.

• Etiquette and Sensible Accommodation are the Foundations of the Disability Employment Process

Etiquette and reasonable accommodation are two critical foundation principles for successful workplace disability management. Master these principles to put employee inclusion into practice. - By Jeremiah Prince

• How Sandoz International Is Advancing Gender Equality

Sandoz International is in the midst of a years-long effort to increase its gender diversity, and finding success. Here’s what’s working and what other firms can learn from Sandoz’s efforts.

• STEM_Why - And How - To Apply STEM Solutions In A World Of VUCA

Our volatile, uncertain world needs staff with the innovative, STEM-based skills to rapidly adapt. Understanding the reasons STEM is the solution and taking guidance from industry leaders will help companies of all sizes compete.

• A Topnotch Division: Employment Services Company Assists Persons with Disabilities

The term “disabled” is not used at Topnotch because the company knows that persons with disabilities are able and ready to be productive, if given opportunities. By Jill Motley

• Optimizing Disabled Talent and Skills for a Competitive Advantage Takes Commitment from the Top

Employees with disabilities have unique skills and perspectives on managing tasks. Their creativity is a source of innovation for a broader market strategy.

• Performance Management: Setting goals and measuring success for growth in a flatter world

In a competitive market, how do companies make sure they are staying ahead of the curve and succeeding in providing the best possible service for their client? “If you’re without any benchmark, you really don’t know how you’re doing,” says Albert Chen, CEO of Telemon Corporation. Performance managem...

• Making Canada Work: Indigenous People Inclusion in the Workplace

Making Canada Work: Indigenous People Inclusion in the WorkplaceA country is as inclusive as its least included group of people, and for Canada that group is Indigenous people. To address the issue, Indigenous Works developed a competency model for Indigenous people inclusion in the Canadian economy...

• Beyond Compliance: Making Disability Inclusion a Competitive Advantage

Diversity and inclusion initiatives often assume a broad perspective applied organization-wide rather than selectively. For the disabled (and others), a better approach is to maximize potential segment-by-segment as a competitive advantage. - By Jeremiah Prince

• Developing an Inclusive Culture for the Disabled

True inclusive cultures embrace everyone, including the disabled. Developing an inclusive culture for the disabled begins with adopting the disability attitude.

• The Modern Biases Keeping Women Away From Stem Fields

The Modern Biases Keeping Women Away From Stem FieldsDespite many of the blatant barriers and biases being removed from STEM fields, the number of women in STEM remains low. What are some of the next-level biases that still need to be addressed, and how can this bias be overcome?It’s hard to argue ...

• Leveraging Disability to Enhance the Personal Branding Process

A personal brand for career success includes all the elements that shape ‘you.’ Disability is one of the elements that brings unique value to a person’s life, and it becomes an important component of the personal branding process.

• Workplace Culture_Fixing The Fruit Diagnosing And Improving Toxic Workplace Cultures

Canada’s offices are like the proverbial orchard, where their cultures are known by their visible harvests. Here, learn how to identify and repair office cultures that have gone rotten.

• Disability Snapshot: Realities And Paths Forward For Europe

Disability Snapshot: Realities And Paths Forward For EuropeWith nearly 50% of Europe’s differently abled population unemployed, the continent struggles to include this group in talent pipelines. However, new initiatives show progress and hope that the future will be more inclusive for all.

• Beyond Stereotypes: Successfully Navigating The 5-Generation Workspace

Beyond Stereotypes: Successfully Navigating The 5-Generation WorkspaceCanadians have five generations active in the workforce. How it is possible to look beyond stereotypes and succeed in this environment?

• Rethinking Reasonable Accommodations for People with Disabilities

Employers need to rethink what reasonable accommodation for people with disabilities really means and how the strategy can benefit the organization. It is the only way progress in hiring and retaining the disabled will ever be made.

• Conquering Discomfort… Working with the “Very Able” Disabled

The development of more inclusive workplaces means there are more disabled people working. It’s time to train staff uncomfortable around the disabled to help them conquer anxieties.

• Strategies for Recognizing and Managing Diversity Fatigue in the Workplace

Employees developing diversity fatigue are less likely to listen to diversity and inclusion messaging. Employers must overcome the fatigue to continue realizing the advantages of a cohesive diverse workplace. - By Anna Gonsalves

• Harnessing the Power of Demographic Change in a Global Workplace

Global companies sincere about developing organization-wide cultures of inclusion for people with disabilities must work within a variety of laws and regulations that make the process easier or more difficult.

• Males Empowering Males as Allies for Women

Males Empowering Males as Allies for WomenMale leaders can and should play an essential role in empowering women as future leaders, and the message should come from the top. Being an ally involves learning the skills necessary to make a real difference at the organizational grassroots level.

• Personal Branding: Leveraging Disability as a "Can Do"

Personal Branding: Leveraging Disability as a "Can Do"A personal brand is a marketing tool that sends a message about strengths and values. For people with disabilities, it also defines their "can do" abilities.

• Following the Lead of the Paralympics in the Workplace

The Paralympics is an event where something very special happens on the sports fields. There are many lessons businesses can learn from these events to build a more inclusive and high performing organizations.

• Eyes on Home Integrating Aboriginals into the Canadian Labor Force

Eyes on Home: Integrating Aboriginals into the Canadian Labor ForceOne of the solutions to Canada’s labor shortage is found right at home. Aboriginals are underutilized and employers need talent, so developing a set of strategies for successful market integration is needed.

• Organizational Justice Climate Influences Workplace Experiences of Disabled

The way employees experience their workplace is largely determined by three elements of the justice climate. The collective beliefs include procedural, interpersonal and informational aspects. - By Jeremiah Prince

• Cultivating Inclusion of People with Disabilities Around the World

Companies have a major role in building a world where people with disabilities are respected and included. The work begins at home to establish the foundation, but the message will resound across the globe through applied talent management processes.

• Aging Workforce (MWBE Entrepreneurs) and adapting to change

Change comes in different forms and shapes. At a workplace, this change might be in the form of people getting old. When your workforce is getting older, there is of course a need for them to move ahead and make way for the new and young. But is this justified? Older people are the ones who might ha...

• Creating Opportunities for People With Disabilities for Operating Success

People with disabilities can enhance organizational operating success, strengthen a culture of inclusion, and bring new perspectives to product designs and marketing. So why are so few of them still able to find employment?

• Why – And How – To Apply STEM Solutions In A World Of VUCA

Our volatile, uncertain world needs staff with the innovative, STEM-based skills to rapidly adapt. Understanding the reasons STEM is the solution and taking guidance from industry leaders will help companies of all sizes compete.

• Awareness Plus Action Best Approach for Mitigating Bias

There is no magic solution to minimizing workplace bias. It takes a combination of employee awareness and organizational structures that reduce the opportunities to demonstrate bias.

• Celebrating and Advancing Disability as Diversity in the Workplace

Celebrating and Advancing Disability as Diversity in the Workplace The 25th anniversary of the ADA has come and gone. Some accomplishments were realized but not enough, so 2016 is the year that businesses should get serious by using the many tools and strategies that advance disability as diversity.

• European Diversity Charters Ask for Voluntary Commitment to Change

Diversity charters are bringing about the changes that laws alone have been unable to accomplish. - By Jill Motley

• The Business of Helping Others Find Their Vitality

Jo-Ann James, CEO of Vital Management, MedFit Rehab and Vital Steps, believes in the power of exercise for shaping our health destiny. One of her favorite expressions is “Exercise is medicine.” - By Valerie Gomez

• Harnessing Creativity to Move Disability Niche Products to Market

Harnessing Creativity to Move Disability Niche Products to Market People with disabilities bring creative thinking and innovation to companies. They also serve as important links for product development intended to reach an untapped niche product market.

• Employer Flexibility Brings Greater Work-Life Balance to Employees

Employer Flexibility Brings Greater Work-Life Balance to EmployeesShowing a willingness to be flexible is how employers are proving they are serious about employee work-life balance. It takes flexible priorities, work schedules and benefits.

• On a Learning Journey to Build Leadership Bench Strength

Creating a learning journey requires developing a process of formal and experiential learning, and networking. Effective leader development is a continuous process. - By Dave Desouza

• The Loud Voice of Voting

The Loud Voice of VotingYou may have forgotten that people of color were actually given the right to vote in 1870 when the 15th Amendment to the Constitution was passed. It says in essence that no one can be denied the right to vote on account of “…race, color, or previous condition of servitude…” U...

• Disability works Signaling Support For Workers With Disabilities

In 2020, corporations donated well over $16 billion in philanthropic contributions. By making charity part of strategic goals to demonstrate value for employees with disabilities, companies can put money behind their support for workers with life-long or emerging disabilities.

• The Broad Perspective on Workplace Accessibility

Workplace accessibility is a principle encompassing everything from the physical layout to HR practices. Most importantly, accessibility must rest on a foundation of an inclusive culture.